rt42 -- denial-of-service attack via the email gateway

Details

VuXML ID

d1dfc4c7-8791-11e3-a371-6805ca0b3d42

Discovery

2014-01-27

Entry

2014-01-27

The RT development team reports:

Versions of RT between 4.2.0 and 4.2.2 (inclusive) are
vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack via the email
gateway; any installation which accepts mail from untrusted
sources is vulnerable, regardless of the permissions
configuration inside RT. This vulnerability is assigned
CVE-2014-1474.

This vulnerability is caused by poor parsing performance
in the Email::Address::List module, which RT depends on. We
recommend that affected users upgrade their version of
Email::Address::List to v0.02 or above, which resolves the
issue. Due to a communications mishap, the release on CPAN
will temporarily appear as "unauthorized," and the
command-line cpan client will hence not install it. We
expect this to be resolved shortly; in the meantime, the
release is also available from our server.